ITALY'S PRIME MINISTER MATTEO RENZI CALLED FOR THE EMERGENCY EUROPEAN SUMMIT THIS WEEK TO DEAL WITH THE GROWING MIGRANT CRISIS ON THE SOUTHERN COAST OF ITALY. ITALY, AND THE REST OF EUROPE, IS BEING FLOODED BY THE TIDAL WAVES OF IMMIGRANTS FLEEING WARS AND POVERTY IN THEIR OWN COUNTRIES.WILL THE EUROPEAN UNION BE ABLE TO COPE WITH THIS DAILY GROWING INFLUX OF PEOPLE SEEKING ASYLUM ?

IT HAS BEEN SAID THAT HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF --

BETWEEN 1881 AND 1914, THE EUROPEAN POWERS SCRAMBLED FOR AFRICA -- INVADED, OCCUPIED, COLONIZED, AND ANNEXED 90% OF AFRICAN TERRITORY. THEY COLONIZED MANY OTHER PARTS OF THE WORLD, AS WELL. AND NOW WE ARE WITNESSING THE BACKLASH OF THIS POLICY -- WHATEVER WE DO WILL COME BACK TO US ... THREEFOLD ?

THE WESTERN ROMAN EMPIRE WAS RAIDED BY BARBARIANS AND COLLAPSED -- THE FALL OF ROME CAME FROM WITHOUT AND FROM WITHIN.

yes of course.. the my truth your truth game of relativity, being that the world can be experienced in an infinite number of ways. but then you probably want to believe yours is the supreme truth above all others.

guess you gotta lot of work to do to convince even one other to see and experience it exactly the way you believe it to be.

do you believe that is even possible, to have another's unique nervous system match yours exactly?

i'll give you a hint to where you can look towards a different perspective (seems you aren't quite at that natural state):

QUOTE(KRUSTI @ Apr 23, 2015, 02:54 PM)

BUDDHA TAUGHT THAT OUR MIND -- IN ITS NATURAL STATE -- IS PURE, INFINITE AND BRIGHTLY SHINING,AND THE QUALITIES OF THIS ABSOLUTE STATE OF MIND ARE DHARMAKAYA ( TRUTH), SAMBHOGAKAYA (INFINITE JOY) AND NIRMANAKAYA (RADIANCE). THIS IS WHAT CHRISTIANS CALL RESURRECTION.

i borrowed the quote from your other thread. the hindu philosopher would call your stark naked reality "illusion".their philosophical precept would be that what you focus on grows as the reality you would see and eventually take to be the believable truth. in physics this would be akin to the heisenberg uncertainty principle, where time and space is altered by the observer (or in spiritual science, consciousness charging conscious particles to arrange them into experiential matter).someone i knew once said when you focus on a problem you become part of the problem (being that you reinforce the reality).

now being that you stumbled somewhere upon some buddhist spiritual idea but missed the point, or its deeper meaning, how about you tell us the stark reality of what the natural state of mind experiences when it is pure, infinite and brightly shining with truth and radiance. does it experience chaos, difficulty and three fold karmic repercussion from conscious activity whether it be pure or impure from the waking state relatively bound mind?

are you familiar with the story of lazarus? you do realize jesus had no intention of getting in the way of what needed to happen, in that he (lazarus) needed to die before being resurrected. that being said karma as you present it is created at much deeper levels than right and wrong or from resolute ideas about black and white within the relative world as it is applied to spirituality.

you remind me of most preachers who speak of god without any experience of god (nor the ability to expand upon anything you write without dipping into some book somewhere that you got stuffed in some closet).

FOR GREECE -- AND EUROPE -- THE TRUE CALAMITY IS TO DELAY EXITING THE EURO.IT IS NOT GREXIT THAT THREATENS EUROPE'S SECURITY, BUT BLIND RESISTANCE TO IT.FOR GREECE, THE WORST CATASTROPHE NOW WOULD BE TO STAY IN THE EUROZONE.IT HAS BEEN CLEAR FOR YEARS THAT GREECE'S POLITICAL ECONOMY CANNOT MANAGE THE COST OF EURO MEMBERSHIP.HAD GREECE SLID OUT OF THE EURO AFTER THE CRASH OF 2008, IT WOULD NOW BE ON THE ROAD TO RECOVERY. SIMON JERKINS

HAVE YOU READ THE APPEAL TO THE GREEK PEOPLE AND ALL THE PEOPLE OF THE WORLDWRITTEN BY MIKIS THEODORAKIS ON HIS 90TH BIRTHDAY, JULY 29, 2015, AND SIGNED BY OTHER GREEK INTELLECTUALS, ACTIVISTS AND POLITICIANS ?

SPARTA WAS THE ONLY GREEK CITY WITH NO DEFENCE WALLS -- MEN WERE THE WALLS OF SPARTA